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Item Details
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MY FAVOURITE STORIES OF WALES
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| By: |
Jan Morris (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£16.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0718824067 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780718824068 |
| Publisher: |
JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 1980 |
| Series: |
My favourite... |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
A collection of stories of Wales, compiled and edited by the well-known writer and broadcaster to celebrate the longevity and variety of the Welsh narrative tradition. Part of the "My Favourite" series, this work presents these stories on different themes by different authors. |
| Synopsis: |
This work is taken from the "My Favourite" series - favourite stories on different themes by different authors, each volume edited by a celebrity in the field. Story-telling is among the oldest and most persistent of all Welsh activities. The honoured bards of ancient Wales were professional tellers of tales, and the very same stories that are told to Welsh children today were told to their remote forefathers long ago. For this book, Jan Morris has chosen favourites that reflect the gamut of Welsh narrative style, from classical legend to modern short story, all linked by the thread of dark and subtle humour which is, as she believes, characteristic of the Welsh imagination. Here are enigmatic and salted tales from the Mabinogion; a pungent encounter in a medieval tavern; and the reverberant images of the folk tales - the strange sweet music of the Tylwith Teg and the cry of King Arthur's wakened soldiers: "Has Wales need of us?" Here too are the travellers and romantics of the last century and the celebrated short-story writers of our own day with their wry, allusive narratives of modern Wales.In a splendid selection, Jan Morris pays tribute to the subtlety, the humour, the unshakeable individuality, of a nation whose people have always, for better or worse, has a story to tell. |
| Illustrations: |
b&w |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Lutterworth Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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